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In-Silico Drug discovery approach targeting receptor tyrosine kinase-like orphan receptor 1 for cancer treatment

Scientific Reports CC BY 4.0

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실험을 한 번도 하지 않고 컴퓨터만으로 신약 후보 하나를 고르는 절차가 처음부터 끝까지 한 편에 들어 있다. 표적 Ror1 은 정상 성인 조직에는 거의 없고 암에서만 다시 켜지는 단백질이라, 지금도 항체와 CAR-T 로 임상에 올라 있다. 다만 이 논문은 원자료도 코드도 남기지 않았다 — 그래서 인실리코 결과 중 무엇을 믿고 무엇을 다시 확인해야 하는지를 배우기에 오히려 좋은 호다.

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  2. 2 Pharmacokinetics 20강 · 필수
  3. 3 insilico 20강
  4. 4 Target Discovery 20강 · 필수
  5. 5 Protein Structure Prediction 20강
  6. 6 Docking and Molecular Dynamics 20강

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Secondary and tertiary structure analysis Protein Structure Prediction, First Steps
Structure absent from RCSB PDB and SCOP Protein Structure Prediction, First Steps
PROMOTIF and GOR4 secondary structure prediction Protein Structure Prediction, First Steps
Fig. 2 — Template search using BLASTp Protein Structure Prediction, First Steps
3D structure prediction (CPHmodels, Phyre2, PS2v2, RaptorX, Modeller, I-TASSER) Protein Structure Prediction, First Steps
Fig. 3a-c — ProSA Z-score and per-residue energy Protein Structure Prediction, First Steps
SAVES server — 97.16% of residues 3D-1D >= 0.2 Protein Structure Prediction, First Steps
PROCHECK — 67.4 / 27.3 / 3.8 / 1.6 % Protein Structure Prediction, First Steps
Schrodinger Protein Preparation Wizard Protein Structure Prediction, First Steps
Fig. 5 — Domain analysis by CD-Search (Pkc_like superfamily) Protein Structure Prediction, First Steps
Active site prediction — DogSiteScorer and SiteMap Protein Structure Prediction, First Steps
Table 1 — Active site analysis using DogSiteScorer Protein Structure Prediction, First Steps
Fig. 1 — Secondary structure analysis of Ror1 Protein Structure Prediction, First Steps
Fig. 9 — Ror1 signalling pathway (IL-6/STAT3/Wnt5a/PI3K-AKT) Protein Structure Prediction, First Steps
Protein-Ligand Docking and MD simulation Docking and Molecular Dynamics, First Steps
Ligand preparation — ZINC database, 45,000 unique ligands Docking and Molecular Dynamics, First Steps
LigPrep optimisation Docking and Molecular Dynamics, First Steps
Glide HTVS screening, cut-off -7 kcal/mol Docking and Molecular Dynamics, First Steps
Fig. 6 — Drug-likeness screening parameters (FAF-Drugs3) Docking and Molecular Dynamics, First Steps
AutoDock Vina rescoring, |affinity| >= 10.9 Docking and Molecular Dynamics, First Steps
Table 2 — Glide scores of the best 10 docked ligands Docking and Molecular Dynamics, First Steps
Fig. 7a-b — Hydrogen bond interactions, protein + ligand 15 Docking and Molecular Dynamics, First Steps
ADMET properties of DB03208 (PGG) Docking and Molecular Dynamics, First Steps
GROMACS system setup — SPC/E water, AMBER99SB-ILDN, 3 Cl- Docking and Molecular Dynamics, First Steps
Energy minimisation, 0.1 ns, emtol 10.0 Docking and Molecular Dynamics, First Steps
Fig. 8a — RMSD of protein, ligand and complex Docking and Molecular Dynamics, First Steps
Fig. 8b-c — RMSF of protein and ligand Docking and Molecular Dynamics, First Steps
High-throughput MM-PBSA by g_mmpbsa (top 300 ligands) Docking and Molecular Dynamics, First Steps
Molecular basis — polyphenols, hydrogen bonding, logP ⚗️ Chemistry for Bioinformatics, First Steps
In-silico drug discovery workflow end to end 🎯 Insilico Medicine, First Steps
Target selection — Ror1 as a cancer target Target Discovery, First Steps
ADMET / absorption, BBB, water solubility 💊 Pharmacokinetics, First Steps

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